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DBMS > Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MariaDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MariaDB vs. Yanza

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NameFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing serviceMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score93.21
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.postgresql.fastware.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
yanza.com
Technical documentationwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­library
DeveloperPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Yanza
Initial release201020142009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 19952015
Current releaseFujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 202211.3.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3no
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodespartitioning by range, list and by hashShardingShardingseveral options for horizontal partitioning and Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infowith MEMORY storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
Fujitsu Enterprise PostgresIBM CloudantIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMariaDBYanza
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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